My name is Christina and I am 19 years old. Four days ago my boyfriend, who is and for a long time will be my 1st and only sexual partner, and I were messing around and he told me that he could feel a small bump about two inches in my vagina. I went ahead and tried to feel it and it was a small soft pea sized lump in the upper right hand corner of my vagina wall. I immediately scheduled an appointment with the woman's clinic with my college. The doctor gave me a pelvic exam (it was my first one, and it was so uncomfortable!) and the first thing she said was "Oh, that looks a lot like HPV." She explained to me what she saw. She said that i looked like a fleshy colored cauliflower bump, and there were a few other warty areas right beside it. I know, gross. But then she re-assured me that it was probably just a growth. However, she set me up an appointment with another doctor, she said because the lump was so big, but then gave me a whole bunch of information about HPV. She was also asking me questions about my current boyfriend, like if he had HPV, and how many partners had he been with. Now my boyfriend has been with quite a few other women, and he thinks he knows who gave it to him. But anyways, the doctor scared the crap out of me with all the HPV talk, and from what I am reading what I have looks a lot like HPV.
So I guess I have a few questions.
1. I can still have sex with my boyfriend because both of our immune systems could possibly fight off the virus over time?
2. My doctor never gave me any answers or told me what I should be doing, so what are the necessary steps I need to take to fix this?
3. Do genital warts mean you will have cervical cancer, or if you have genital warts does that mean you have the non-high risk type of HPV?
4. If it goes dormant, is there still a possibility I could pass it on to my kids?
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Hello,
My name is Christina and I am 19 years old. Four days ago my boyfriend, who is and for a long time will be my 1st and only sexual partner, and I were messing around and he told me that he could feel a small bump about two inches in my vagina. I went ahead and tried to feel it and it was a small soft pea sized lump in the upper right hand corner of my vagina wall. I immediately scheduled an appointment with the woman's clinic with my college. The doctor gave me a pelvic exam (it was my first one, and it was so uncomfortable!) and the first thing she said was "Oh, that looks a lot like HPV." She explained to me what she saw. She said that i looked like a fleshy colored cauliflower bump, and there were a few other warty areas right beside it. I know, gross. But then she re-assured me that it was probably just a growth. However, she set me up an appointment with another doctor, she said because the lump was so big, but then gave me a whole bunch of information about HPV. She was also asking me questions about my current boyfriend, like if he had HPV, and how many partners had he been with. Now my boyfriend has been with quite a few other women, and he thinks he knows who gave it to him. But anyways, the doctor scared the crap out of me with all the HPV talk, and from what I am reading what I have looks a lot like HPV.
So I guess I have a few questions.
1. I can still have sex with my boyfriend because both of our immune systems could possibly fight off the virus over time?
2. My doctor never gave me any answers or told me what I should be doing, so what are the necessary steps I need to take to fix this?
3. Do genital warts mean you will have cervical cancer, or if you have genital warts does that mean you have the non-high risk type of HPV?
4. If it goes dormant, is there still a possibility I could pass it on to my kids?
Thanks
May 25, 2010 - 3:33amThis Comment
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